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Last year, President Bush proposed spending the same amount of money for “promise” and “opportunity” scholarships so students at struggling schools could transfer to better-performing schools, including private schools. The proposal never gained traction in Congress.

Bush’s proposed voucher program would be modeled after a much smaller federally financed scholarship initiative in Washington, which has provided more than $14 million a year for low-income children to attend private and religious schools.

The program, enacted in 2005-06, provides vouchers of up to $7,500 to low- income families living in Washington.

Florida has a similar voucher program called Opportunity Scholarships under former Gov. Jeb Bush but it was struck down by the Florida Supreme Court in 2006 because judges said it created a separate and unequal system of publicly supported schools.